Styles may change, details may come and go, but the broad demands of aesthetic judgement are permanent.

Beauty can be consoling, disturbing, sacred, profane; it can be exhilarating, appealing, inspiring, chilling. It can affect us in an unlimited variety of ways. Yet it is never viewed with indifference: beauty demands to be noticed; it speaks to us directly like the voice of an intimate friend. If there are people who are indifferent to beauty, then it is surely because they do not perceive it.

Modernism in architecture went hand in hand with socialist and fascist projects to rid old Europe of its hierarchical past

The sexual parts are not only vivid examples of the body's dominion; they are also apertures whose damp emissions and ammoniac smells testify to the mysterious putrefaction of the body.

In argument about moral problems, relativism is the first refuge of the scoundrel.

Beauty is vanishing from our world because we live as though it does not matter.

Concerning no subject would [George Bernard] Shaw be deterred by the minor accident of total ignorance from penning a definitive opinion.